The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders’ needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches suitable for use across a program’s life cycle. At the core of program evaluation is its body of concepts, theories, and methods. This revised edition provides an overview of these, and includes expanded coverage of both introductory and more cutting-edge techniques within six new chapters. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples that bring the material to life, the Second Edition provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator’s toolbox.
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PREFACE
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Fundamentals for Program Evaluation
2. Understand Approaches to Evaluation and Select Ones That Work: The Comprehensive Evaluation Typology
3. Logic Models and the Action Model/Change Model Schema (Program Theory)
PART II: PROGRAM EVALUATION TO HELP STAKEHOLDERS DEVELOP A PROGRAM PLAN
4. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Program Scope
5. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Action Plan
PART III: EVALUATING IMPLEMENTATION
6. Constructive Process Evaluation Tailored for the Initial Implementation
7. Assessing Implementation in the Mature Implementation Stage
PART IV: PROGRAM MONITORING AND OUTCOME EVALUATION
8. Program Monitoring and the Development of a Monitoring System
9. Constructive Outcome Evaluations
10. The Experimentation Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation
11. The Holistic Effectuality Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation
12. The Theory-Driven Approach to Outcome Evaluation
PART V: ADVANCED ISSUES IN PROGRAM EVALUATION
13. What to Do if Your Logic Model Does Not Work as Well as Expected
14. Formal Theories Versus Stakeholder Theories in Interventions: Relative Strengths and Limitations
15. Evaluation and Dissemination: Top-Down Approach Versus Bottom-Up Approach
References
Index
Sobre el autor
Huey T. Chen has been a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2002. He was born and raised in Taiwan. Dr. Chen worked at the University of Akron until 1997, when he joined the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the chief of an evaluation branch. Dr. Chen had taken a leadership role in designing and implementing a national evaluation system for assessing the CDC funded HIV prevention programs, which are based in health departments and community organizations. Dr. Chen has contributed to the development of evaluation theory and methodology, especially in the areas of program theory and theory-driven evaluations. His book, Theory-Driven Evaluations, has been recognized as one of the landmarks in program evaluation. In 1998 he received the Senior Biomedical Research Service Award from the CDC. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for contributions to Evaluation Theory from the American Evaluation Association.
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